Sub - Society & Social Justice Compilation

Subject: Society & Social Justice LIsts: Compilation Status: Sorted Once

1. Blocking Dalit Wedding Processions: An ongoing social issue
2. Student Dropouts: 13,636 students from SC, ST, and OBC backgrounds dropped out, as raised in parliament
3. Supreme Court (SC) Reprimands High Court (HC): Case of POCSO in Calcutta HC
4. Blood Money Concept: Blood money refers to the compensation paid by an offender or their kin to the family of a murder victim
5. Pakdawa Vivah: A type of forced marriage practiced in Bihar.
6. Road Safety and Good Practices Report: A report on road safety good practices in India by the World Bank and NGO Save Life Foundation
7. Aim of Tamil Nadu Government: To have a 100% gross enrollment ratio and Naan-Mudhalvan scheme.
8. WHO Commission on Social Connection (2024-2026): Addressing socialization and loneliness issues post-pandemic.
9. American Psychologist Paper by Mary AK: Discusses socialization and loneliness.
10. ICMR Study: 9% of individuals who survived COVID-19 hospitalization experienced mental health challenges
11. Mental Health in Second Sanhita Bill 2023: Section 85 of the bill addresses mental health and exploitation of women, defining a child as any person below the age of 18
12. Cash Transfer in WB - 85% have the decision to spend → Lakshmir Bhandar Scheme
13. Instances of regionalism and linguistic chauvinism in Bangalore when non-Kannada boards were violated
14. Lack of contingency plan for SC ST’s
15. Comprehensive, national nutrition survey
16. Dharavi Slum Redevelopment Project - Adani with Hafeez who is a SRA - Slum Rehabilitation Authority
17. First Girl Sainik School in Mathura

• SC Says that Caste Based Discrimination in Jails should be Addressed

  Rajasthan Prisoner Act, 1951: Mahaters to Latrines Work & Sufficiently High Caste Upper Hindus to Kitchen or Cooking

  Palayamkottai Central Jail in Tamil Nadu: Thevar, Nadar & Pallar are Different

  West Bengal Jail Code: Mether, Hari, Chandal & Other Caste

  Section 741 : Safeguards Monopoly of Savran Hindus

  Sunil Batra v/s Delhi Admin 1978 → Priosners Dont Loose FR

  Issues

  Caste Based Dsicriination of Work & Barracks in Jail

  Marking of Denotified Tribes and Habitual Offenders

  Prison Act 1894 is of Colonial Era. Need to come out of colonial perspective

  Goves Priority to Punishment over Refomation, Which is AGainst Model Priosn Code of 2003 & 2023

  Jail is State List in Sch 6, most of it has never been changed

• Disability

  

  1.3 billion people live with some form of disability. Of them, 80% live in developing countries; further, 70% of them live in rural areas.

  UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2007, and enacted the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act (RPWD) in 2016, which provides a legal framework for the protection and empowerment of people with disabilities.

  According to the World Bank, 5–8% of India's population have disabilities. The NSSO estimates that 2.2% of the population is disabled. The NFHS-5 survey (2019–21) found that 4.52% of the population has a disability.